Once again we have managed to fill all available space for a UKNOF
meeting in London ! Everyone who registered, including standbys, before
the cut-off point at the end of last week when registrations closed will
be able to attend, but I'm afraid we _cannot_ accommodate any further
walk-ins on the day. Thank you everyone for your interest, apologies if
you were disappointed, and we hope to see you on the webcast and next time.
Talks this time around include a session on the Internet traffic impact
of the Olympics and other summer events, talks on the potential
operational impact of the Communications Data Bill & ITU ITRs,
development of the Firebrick router, IPv6 transition and satellite
operations wisdom, and updates on the DNS WEIRDS Whois replacement and
other IETF standards developments.
Things kick off this evening with the pre-meeting Curry Social, this
time we're at Brick Lane, kindly sponsored by IX Reach. The venue is:
http://cinnamonbricklane.co.uk/
134 Brick Lane
Aldgate, E1 6RL
With a start time of 6pm. For those who manage to not ingest too much
beer at the above event, we could do with a few more helpers to do venue
setup this evening at 8pm, please contact <[email protected]> ASAP if
you're able to assist.
Google are kindly providing the meeting venue this time around, via
their Campus London facility:
http://www.campuslondon.com
4-5 Bonhill Street
Islington EC2A 4BX
http://maps.google.com/?q=EC2A+4BX
Thank you also to our main sponsors Andrews & Arnold, and also flexOptix
and Afilias, for covering our catering and other meeting costs for UKNOF23.
As you may have already noticed, a big deal for us this time around is
we are trialling the Indico open-source conference support platform.
This fully-featured package can support more than just all we need for a
UKNOF meeting, but this time we're mainly using it to make presentation
upload and publishing much smoother.
You can find the agenda for the meeting at:
http://indico.uknof.org.uk/conferenceOtherViews.py?view=standard&confId=24
and the slide decks will be available tomorrow linked from this page.
It's unlikely we'll avoid having a few teething problems with a new
system like this, so please bear with us as we learn and knock the kinks
out of it, and help us by reporting any issues you find to
<[email protected]>.
If it works well, we plan to use Indico to support registration and
other features for UKNOF24. A BIG thank you to Nat Morris for all his
hard work in getting this up and running, and to Bytemark for providing
the VM server instance it runs on.
As usual, and for those of you who are not able to come, we will be
webcasting the event, at:
http://uknof.bogons.net/uknof21.html
with thanks to Bogons and Portfast.
Remote participation is supported by the IRC channel:
#[email protected]
I'd also like to thank AQL for sponsoring the name badges, which will
come with their unique SIM cards on request.
At the end of the day's proceedings there will be social drinks,
generously sponsored by LINX, at a nearby pub. Detail of the venue will
be available at an invite to be circulated at the meeting, which you'll
need to bring to be admitted.
Look forward to seeing you all tonight and tomorrow !
Keith
